Year: 2002

Two new international mirrors – Juegos Alkon, an Argentinian games site with a very fast connection (mirroring the large QT version) and DeadSwitch, a fast UK connection (mirroring the WMP9 version). Go get ’em! (They’ve been added to the Mirrors page.)

Assassin, from Computer Games in Romania, has sent word that they’ve re-encoded the high-quality QT version as an MPEG. Screensize is the same, filesize is 25.5 mb… quality is quite good. If you’re having trouble with QuickTime, but can’t get WMP9 to run on your system, this might be the way to go! (Server speed…

Jeff Lofland has turned in another very nice desktop image – take a look in our Wallpaper section.

This is bizarre – Gamesurf.de, a German gaming site, has put up a note on their Halo trailer announcement page stating that someone from Microsoft phoned them and told them they couldn’t mirror the trailer, because the content is not for foreign markets. What’s up with that?

The fans do it again. We’ve added a full transcript of the trailer dialogue to our Miscellaneous section (well, it’s not actually listed there yet, but it will be soon), thanks to the contributors of this thread on our forum (and a tiny bit of tweaking from me). There are two alternatives I’ve seen -…

Blackstar decided that 480×288 just wasn’t big enough… so he re-encoded to get to 600×340. We’ve added his 32.7 mb QuickTime version to the mirror list. (You’ll find it near the bottom, in the ‘unofficial sizes’ area.) Since the last update, there have also been two European mirrors added – one in France, one in…

Halo 2 Trailer everywhere… but on G4 tonight, it was Randy Glass’ Warthog Jump and the E3 trailer! Thanks to Lorraine Reyes-McLees for the heads-up.

XboxManiak has recompressed the movie in WMP7 format, at 320×240 resolution – for those on a slower connection, it’s not bad. (If you can handle the larger/newer versions, definitely get them, it’s hard to express how impressive they are…) Also, several new mirrors have come online – if one doesn’t work for you (or works…

ElectricSheep has tossed up a transcription of the trailer dialogue. If you’re having trouble picking it all up… read this post (and the resultant thread)!

Guh. HBO’s connections are pegged at 120 simultaneous ones – so we’ve added a mirror for our Halo 2 Trailer Mirror list. (I’m guessing that’s pretty much the only thing people want tonight…) You can find it here: http://www.bungie.org/halo2trailermirrors/ These will be updated simultaneously, so if you can’t reach one, grab the other.

Mr. Zarquon and GamingHorizon have both added mirrors – .wmv and QT for the former, .wmv for the latter. (Gaming Horizon also has a news article about it.) Find the new links on our Mirrors page. (A french mirror is coming soon.)

Extremely cool writeup on the making of the trailer, at Bungie.net. Go read.

And the chase is on! The Halo 2 trailer has been released – you can find it at Xbox.com… and thanks to a kind soul, you can also get it in QT6 format from a variety of fan mirrors. All links (and any new ones we hear about) are listed on the Halo 2 Trailer…

A bit of Fan Fiction to hold you over until the trailer is released this evening:Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 9, by Ian Barnes Helljumpers, part 1, by Havok Rise To Honor, part 24, by Shadow The Shadows, part 1, by Glenny This marks the end of the Rise to Honor series. Shadow…

Whoa, very cool – Jester, over at psyjnir.com, contacted G4 Media, the folks who filmed the Halo National Championship finals… and G4 is intending to release a highlights film on the web, at some point. Nice!

penne dropped us a note about a new movie created by the German Halo clansite HaloPlayers. It’s just under 2 minutes long, in WMP format, 9.2 mb zipped. 2 player gameplay on Blood Gulch, with some video effects. You can find it at HaloPlayers’ website.

Here we are, coming up on the 10-month anniversary of the release of the Xbox… and major new glitches are STILL being discovered. Frogblast shows how to get to Keyes from the very beginning of the level Keyes… and how to get to the lifepods on the Pillar of Autumn long before you’re supposed to.…

The countdown at Xbox.com has changed to show that the release time of the Halo 2 trailer will be 6 pm Pacific time today. 12 more hours… (Realize that several tens of thousands of people will be trying at the exact same moment to be grabbing that file – so in reality, release (for you)…

Some folks have noticed a bunch of outages at Bungie.net over the course of the day. Well, a new article by Matt Soell points out what was done behind the scenes during these outages. Bungie.net (and all of its subsites) have just become more useful, more flexible, funner to use. Check it out!

Dan Chosich’s Seven has lost a mirror (the main site is down for excessive use of bandwidth), but Rampancy.net and Appleicious have stepped up to provide more bandwidth. You’ll find these links on the Seven mirrors page. One more: Xerxes, from Halo Orbit (in Germany) sent word that they, too, are mirroring the file. (Link…